Re: DNS problem

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:30:41PM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:22:52PM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > Scott Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >    I have a 4.8 system with stock named 8.3.4-REL and I am getting TONS 
> > >of messages in /var/log/messages like:
> > >
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
> > >(B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >May 13 14:36:54 mastodon named[74]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS ()
> > 
> > 	Is there a problem with your /etc/namedb/named.root ?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Florent Thoumie                        Epita SRS Promo 2005
> 
> No solutions, but a "me too." I've had bind8/named in the base system flake
> out about once every three months in the same way. It'll spew those messages
> repeatedly until /var gets full, then the real fun starts.
...

I've experienced the problem as well, and this somehow seems to be related to
the forwarders line in my named.conf.  The funny thing I have observed is that
when I forward off a server running bind9, this problem manifests itself, but
when I revert to forwarding off a server running bind8, the problem goes away.
The problem also goes away if I don't use any forwarders....

G.
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